I dont know if you have fully taken into account that this is also probably the worse year we have ever had injury wise and although we have still fielded a full team two weeks back we played 9 players with under 32 games, add to that rarely being able to have any consistency in the team as soon as we get a player back we lose 3 others, add a new coach/game plan and we were on a hiding to none this year.I’m purely talking on field performance lowest ebb in club history and that’s fact , I forecast that when we got players back it’d make little difference to results , that’s how it’s turned out
If we do nothing but turn up with same squad next year we win 0-2w with the bleakest of outlooks and likely requests to leave and nowhere near as good a trades on the table
We need a better plan than sitting on our arses , harvest the draft for talent and produce a base like we did prior to Dimma joining , that’s what works
Agree that we need to hit the draft hard over the next year or two as we need a good base before the Devils take all the early picks, I just dont think things are quite as bad as they currently appear.